This came right about the time that a Spanish news outlet, Univision,
presented an hour-long report which excoriates the Obama administration
for its role in Operation Fast & Furious. Among the many items
presented, Univision told their viewers that:

* There have been other Americans -- in addition to U.S. Border
Agent Brian Terry -- who were murdered by Fast & Furious guns, such
as Air Force medic David Booher who was executed at a Juarez bar;

* There are scores of other crime guns which came into Mexico as a
result of Fast & Furious that have not yet been tallied by Congress,
such as the weapons used to massacre over a dozen teenagers at a party
in Mexico -- including some who were gunned down by lookouts as they
escaped; and,

* There were other gun running operations, such as Operation Castaway which sent guns into Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela.

Univision also said that it was Bill Newell, the Phoenix ATF office
leader, who decided that “the only way to track the guns was to wait
for weapons to be recovered in crime scenes in Mexico.”

In regard to Newell’s statement, the Daily Caller says:
“That charge, if true, would mean the Obama administration decided to
allow cartel operatives to kill and injure people with the weapons it
gave them, and to recover the guns only after criminals ditched them at
brutal — often deadly — crime scenes.”

In other words, dead Mexicans were the price to pay for advancing gun control in this country.

As stated by Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), who sits on the
congressional committee investigating Fast & Furious, this operation
was nothing more than a “political ploy to bring gun trafficking into
Mexico into the news to support some sort of anti-firearm agenda.”

Rep. Paul Ryan will engage the sitting Vice President Joe Biden in a nationally televised debate on Thursday, October 11.
Ryan is in a position where he can bypass the mainstream media and tell
Americans how the Obama administration wanted to use dead Mexican
bodies as a way to drudge up support for gun control in this country.

Remember, while no one died in Watergate, more than 300 people have perished because of Fast & Furious-gate.

ACTION: Please contact Rep. Paul Ryan and ask him to bring
up Fast & Furious in the debate this Thursday with Joe Biden. This
is a unique opportunity for him to show how the administration will use
diabolical methods to advance its gun control agenda.

I want to thank you for taking a strong stance on Operation Fast
& Furious and for calling for the resignation of Attorney General
Eric Holder.

You are in a unique position where you can bypass the mainstream
media and tell Americans how the Obama administration wanted to use dead
Mexican bodies as a way to drudge up support for gun control in this
country.

Recently, the Spanish news outlet, Univision, said that it
was Bill Newell, the Phoenix ATF office leader, who decided that "the
only way to track the guns was to wait for weapons to be recovered in
crime scenes in Mexico."

In regard to Newell's statement, the Daily Caller says:
"That charge, if true, would mean the Obama administration decided to
allow cartel operatives to kill and injure people with the weapons it
gave them, and to recover the guns only after criminals ditched them at
brutal — often deadly — crime scenes."

This has been well-reported in many newspapers around the country:

* “The Obama Administration, according to ATF agents who blew the
whistle on the illegal plot, intended to use statistics concerning U.S.
guns in Mexico to call for more stringent gun control.” (Examiner, April 18, 2011)

* “The White House often claimed that 90 percent of the weapons
used in Mexican crimes had been traced to the United States, but the
number has never been substantiated. By all appearances, Fast and
Furious delivered statistics to back up the figure.” ("Too fast, too
furious," The Washington Times, July 13, 2011.)

In your debate this week, please mention Fast & Furious as yet
another example of the way the Obama Administration has failed the
American people -- and, specifically in this case, used diabolical
methods to advance its gun control agenda.

Remember, while no one died in Watergate, more than 300 people have perished because of Fast & Furious-gate.

One of the reasons U.S. Navy SEALs were able to so skillfully execute
the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound last year was a CIA training
facility in North Carolina that mirrored the architecture of bin Laden's
actual compound in Pakistan. In 2011, during those crucial months that
SEAL Team Six trained there, it was one of the most secretive facilities
on U.S. soil. Now, for the first time, the facility has been revealed
on Bing's satellite map service during a phase when it was under construction. Peekaboo!

That's an aerial shot of Harvey Point Defense Testing, a CIA training
facility in North Carolina. It was taken on February 15, 2011. Look
familiar? Here's a shot of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad,
Pakistan, shortly after the May 2011 raid.

A mother in Portland allowed her child to play in a mud puddle in front
of her home and was shocked to see her child surrounded by 3 local
policemen who were interrogating the child as to where his parents were
and why he was playing outside in the rain... The police threatened to
arrest her if they caught the child outside playing in the rain again...
By constant monitoring, adult-direction, evaluation and pressure to
conform, they cannot deal with real world situations, says
Susanne Posel in this article, Let the Children Play, at Activist Post.

Time after time, we've given our Muslim neighbors the benefit of the
doubt. And time after time, we've been betrayed. Muslims aren't just the
main source of terror overseas, Muslims represent just 1% of the U.S.
population, yet account for 82% of all domestic terrorism convictions.
If there is a religious debate within the Muslim community about Islam
and violence, it's the quietest in history, says
Paul Sperry in this article, Assuming The Best About Muslims, at Investor's Business Daily.

He is a Lieutenant at a federal police agency...
He said "let me give you a tip, and take this seriously. Do not go
anywhere far from home between now and November. You will not be able to
get back home if you do." That's all he could tell me.beforeitsnews.com

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to
prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a
citizen." Now add this, "Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to
prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those
who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens." Ben Stein, attributed, anonymous email

Diversity, our pride and our strength as a nation -
A uniform-free "dress-down" day at Charles Carroll High School in Port
Richmond turned into a public dressing down for a student who chose to
wear a pink T-shirt supporting Mitt Romney for president...
Samantha Pawlucy said the teacher told her that Carroll High is a
"Democratic school" and wearing a Republican shirt is akin to the
teacher, who is black, wearing a KKK shirt. Lai and Graham at philly.com Followup by Jason Nark at philly.com

The legacy newspapers, the network television and cable news, NPR,
and syndicated news providers like the Associated Press and Reuters
cannot be trusted to provide even an approximation of the truth. In the
last month, many have fled domestic mainstream news almost entirely,
determining the media untrustworthy on a Soviet scale. They have instead
fled to independent, alternative online news organizations, along with
news from Canadian, British, and other foreign news agencies.Bob Owens at bob-owens.com

A year after the sound and fury over a state law allowing concealed guns
in bars and restaurants, there has been silence. Almost no incidents
have been reported involving concealed-carry permit holders, and there
has been no spike in violence as predicted by some opponents concerned
about the volatile mix of alcohol and guns.Alan Johnson at dispatch.com

On
Monday GOP nominee Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech at Virginia
Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia and said that the U.S. must
join in helping to arm Syrian rebels to oust Syrian President Bashar
Assad. We have been informed that many of those Syrian rebels are, in
fact, members of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda.

In
attempting to show himself as a strong foreign policy leader, Romney
again puts forth the notion that we should be aiding rebels to overthrow
another government. Apparently we have learned nothing in the past
five decades of intervening in other nation’s business.

Gangs are as easy to understand, they're neolithic
tribalism, as are baseball leagues and high school cliques, except
gangs take reputation, respect, revenge, power, protection and money to
criminal extremes. Add violence without limit, recruitment among the
young, and you have today's street gangs. And eighty percent of all
crime. In the '60s and '70s drug money brought a new ferocity to turf
battles and sharpened the ethnic war between the black Bloods, Crips,
Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples &c., and the Hispanic Latin
Kings, 18th Street Gang, MS13 Mara Salvatrucha, Mexican Mafia, Norteños, Sureños, and Vice Lords.

Urban gangs are very large.
Los Angeles's 18th Street Gang and its cliques are said to be 20,000
strong, sixty percent of which are illegal aliens. About a third of all
violent gangs are black, about half Hispanic, the rest are white and
Asian. Only in small city gangs will the membership be anything like
diverse. The best known white gang is the Aryan Brotherhood, a
comparatively small, prison-based, white supremacist outfit that dates
back to San Quentin in the mid-1960s. The Brotherhood is so insanely
murderous it's said the Italian Mafia sometimes turns to them for
protection. They use Nazi symbols and regalia although of late they've
been less about demographics than ordinary crime.

Gangs have historically been tolerated because they
were territorial and thus avoidable, but the twentieth century added a
new feature to gang life: mobility. If we're honest, nobody much cares
about body counts in gang battles, only when they intrude into the
larger society does the alarm go out. Gang mobility is an unstated
reason mass transit extensions are contested. The densely reasoned, and
often valid, official arguments are proxies in large part. America has
been self-segregating on all sides for several decades now but in the
end avoiding gangs will be impossible. In populated areas they'll come
to you one way or another.

It's with the Hispanic gangs we find real
mobility and staying power. In addition to being a parallel government
in large parts of Mexico, or even the actual government, they're said to
be the real authority in some US
border state counties. The upper reaches of Hispanic gangs exhibit
ambition, purpose and effective long range planning. For instance, they
identify and support young prospects for education in business
administration and law, and send others for officer training and combat
experience in the US armed forces. When we hear from the Pentagon about their "gang member" problem, this is what it's really about .

Black gangs will exhibit audacity,
unpredictability and recklessness. The survivalist can expect swarm
attacks rather than studied tactics, and more exhibitionism than method
all around, but beware their adaptability long term. Expect scorched
earth exploitation, pointless destruction of assets not immediately or
obviously valuable and personalized violence. As it is with black
gangs today, the younger members will be the most sadistically
homicidal, to gain credibility, or at the behest of the leadership, or
just because they can. Take black female gangs as seriously as black male gangs do, they're no mere curiosity.

Hispanic gangs will be no less brutal but more
results oriented. Unlike black gangs, terror will be used as a tactic,
they'll intend to hold and control territory they take. When Hispanic
and black gangs meet, Kosovo-style ethnic cleansing is likely. The
outcome seems predetermined but, as in all things, we have to be willing
to be surprised. What matters is which one dominates in your area at
any given time.

At the outset white and Asian gangs will be a
factor in scattered pockets but expect their numbers to grow as the
emergency deepens. Some sort of cooperation is likely with these two,
there's an underlying affinity that appears genuine. How effective
they'll be is an imponderable, the data base is small. At the skinny
ends of the present "white neolithic tribalism" bell curve we have
civic-minded outfits like Neighborhood Watches to modern day berserkers
like the Aryan Brotherhood without much in between beyond some biker
outfits.

Over time a somewhat stable territorial
arrangement will shake itself out. There will be skirmishes where
fiefdoms overlap, predictably enough, but as the necessities of
survival assert themselves ever more insistently, conflict would
gradually center on controlling intrinsically valuable resources such as
water, food producing land and basic manufacturing.

What's given here is a straight line
extrapolation of present gangs. In an extended catastrophe it's best to
assume a learning curve. The surviving gangs of the first ninety days,
say, would be a different threat from those at the outset. Yes, the
survivalist in a remote location is more likely to be beset by refugees
and raiders than a gang, but gangs have their splinter groups and
outcasts and freelancers too. It would be foolish to dismiss the
possibility.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.